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ring round our tent, and ordered them to stand up and 
be photographed at once. This the poor wretches did, 
looking half-dead with fright, but not daring to disobey. 
Directly they were focussed I called Mandara and 
showed him their pictures on the image-glass. This 
pleased him immensely ; but still greater was his delight 
when I let him take the actual photograph by squeez¬ 
ing the indiarubber-ball of the instantaneous apparatus, 
and when he understood the deed was accomplished 
he danced about, and thumping me on the back 
bellowed for five minutes. I believe he thought he 
had done the subjects some awful injury, and that 
notion tickled him greatly. When I removed the in¬ 
stantaneous shutter, and held it up to explain its work¬ 
ing, he took fright, and running away, like a whipped 
cur, hid behind some of his own people in a most un¬ 
dignified manner, and it was a long time before he was 
sufficiently reassured to re-enter our tent. When at 
length he came back he wanted to see some specimens 
of photographs, and H-produced a few, which he 
silently and minutely examined, and then exclaimed 
in admiration, “ What cunning fools you are ! ” an 
expression we were intended to accept as a compliment. 
He asked the price of the camera, and when I told 
him that it had cost as much cloth as would represent 
fifty pounds of English money, he bluntly replied, 
“ You are a liar ! ” 
The lion-traps particularly enchanted him, and he 
made us promise to give him one before we left the 
country, as he complained of the place being much 
